Grisham refuses to hit 'panic button' after slow offensive start; shows signs vs. Braves
Padres outfielder Trent Grisham has been pirouetting along the pitch-selection fence in oil-soaked ballet slippers, tempting the strike-zone gods with a level of patience that can punish as much as pay off.Welcome to baseball’s finest of lines, where an elite eye for pitches that dive, dart and de-cleat can fall in and out of miniscule calibration, testing mental and emotional limits.
The early conundrum for Grisham is that his exceptional eye adds walks to spark innings for baseball’s biggest group of strollers, yet also sets him up for too many non-contact situations on solid pitches and those dancing near the fringes. Sticking with a plan paid off for Grisham in Friday’s opener against the Braves, when he hammered a bases-clearing double off the left field wall in the ninth to put away the Braves in a late 11-6 runaway.“No doubt that he’s going to find his groove,” Padres interim manager Ryan Christenson said on the eve of the series. “He’s going to find his groove. Everybody goes through a funk. Just a little off right now.
Flashes of more aggressive against the Braves could key Grisham, whose only multi-hit games this came inback-to-back on April 30 and May 1 against the Pirates. It was impossible late Friday to tell if Grisham had struck out on three pitches or dented the outfield wall as a trio of teammates rushed to the plate. That evenness normally serves players well long-term in a grinder of a game.
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